> Google works by pushing employees to build their entire identity and social circle around the company. Eat and relax on campus, find yourself a spouse in the

> Google works by pushing employees to build their entire identity and social circle around the company. Eat and relax on campus, find yourself a spouse in the company, sure. Work way over full time and have way too many ties to ever, ever leave. This hasn't been my experience at all. Granted, I am one person in one team in one corner of a giant company. But my experience is that when I was in the office I went home consistently at 5:30. On days when I spent time playing pinball or got a massage I still went home at 5:30. I am friends with exactly zero of my coworkers. I don't think I know a single person at Google who hangs out with another Googler I know outside of work. And in spite of making very hard boundaries between work and life, my career growth rate has been in the top 5%ile of engineers at the company.